Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 06:53:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 06:53:43 -0400 Received: from brev.stud.ntnu.no ([129.241.56.70]:3301 "EHLO brev.stud.ntnu.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 06:53:42 -0400 Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 12:59:17 +0200 From: Thomas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lang=E5s?= To: jw schultz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Unable to kill processes in D-state Message-ID: <20021006105917.GB13046@stud.ntnu.no> Reply-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20021005090705.GA18475@stud.ntnu.no> <1033841462.1247.3716.camel@phantasy> <20021005182740.GC16200@vagabond> <20021005235614.GC25827@stud.ntnu.no> <20021006021802.GA31878@pegasys.ws> <1033871869.1247.4397.camel@phantasy> <20021006024902.GB31878@pegasys.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021006024902.GB31878@pegasys.ws> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 817 Lines: 19 jw schultz: > I stand corrected. The load average reported will reflect > them. The D-state processes, however, will have nearly zero > effect on the system performance, yes? So in this case the > load average reported is simply an infated number. They won't have any effect on the system, but the load number is insane (we have a 2 CPU intel-boks with a load number of 480) and there's like 200-300 (or more) processes hanging in D-state with they're FD's and stuff. There _really_ should be a way to remove all theese processes, Solaris does this nicely. -- Thomas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/